Happiness is one of the purest things we as people get to experience in this lifetime. Happiness, to me, is more than just a feeling. It is more of a way to look at life. The saddest people are those who look at life as something less than it is actually worth. I am typically happy just because I get to live another day. My needs for happiness aren’t very farfetched. I need companionship and, most of all, I need my family. In my opinion, happiness can be measured through the memories and through the way you live life. True happiness, while some people make it hard, is an easy thing to obtain. All that is really necessary for true happiness in this life is a happy mind. I like to believe that happiness is solely a philosophical pursuit. However, in this day and age happiness is often shaped and molded by what we have as opposed to what we don’t. A lot of …show more content…
The hot yellow sand in between my toes and the cool ocean breeze flowing through my hair is something that beings me pure bliss. This space makes me so happy because it brings a freeing feeling. It makes me wonder. This feeling of wonder really shows me that this world, in this life, has so much more to offer than this one city in this one state. As said by Charles Montgomery in Happy City, “We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality”. My small beach area provides all of these things. Along with the feeling of freedom. Montgomery states that the more cars a space or city has, the lower happiness levels will be (Montgomery 8). My space has cars, yes, but the space left for people is well over the space needed for cars. Spaces should strive to bring more joy than they bring hardship to the people of that space (Montgomery 43). Beached hardly ever bring hardship, to me at